414 DOGS: THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



would kill his companion. On this account no fixed 

 quantity of the medicine can be recommended ; but the 

 practitioner must be satisfied to watch the symptoms 

 induced, and be content to be guided by these. So soon 

 as the physiological symptom is beheld, the good results 

 of the medicine may be anticipated ; and no compound 

 in the pharmacopoeia works with greater certainty. The 

 disease will begin to decline ; and in a month, six weeks, 

 or two months at furthest, will be thoroughly eradicated. 

 In the course of that period, however, it may be as well 

 to give Nature a jolt every now and then, by occasionally 

 increasing the dose, being always prepared to diminish it 

 on the symptoms giving the slightest hint that it is pru- 

 dent so to do. The arsenicalis should be used simply 

 diluted with water ; and during the period occupied by 

 the cure, no other medicine whatever will be required. 



The next form of mange attacks very fat and cruelly 

 overfed animals. The poor dog is very foul. He, as it 

 were, smells aloud ; and his hide is enormously thick- 

 ened, being everywhere devoid of sensation. Pinch it as 

 hard as you can even until the moisture be forced 

 through th pores by the pressure and the operation 

 which should inflict pain, will only communicate pleasure. 



The animal, instead of crying out or endeavoring to 

 snap, will stand altogether quiet, the expression of the 

 face announcing the perfect delight it experiences ; or the 

 head turns round to lick the hand of thepincher, thereby 

 entreating him to continue the delicate recreation. 



The hair is generally more or less removed from the 



